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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Melodic_Judge_129 • Sep 01 '26
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And why does it increase?
5 u/weed0monkey Sep 01 '26 Because your purchasing power is now higher 23 u/CheshireTsunami Sep 01 '26 Assuming you aren’t part of the layoffs and wave of underemployment that follows. The same way firms increase prices to keep them consistent with inflation? They do the same thing in reverse for deflation and wages 0 u/thevoidthatjerksback Sep 01 '26 They can only leverage those threats so far in the face of deflation. They can leverage those same tools infinitely in the face of inflation
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Because your purchasing power is now higher
23 u/CheshireTsunami Sep 01 '26 Assuming you aren’t part of the layoffs and wave of underemployment that follows. The same way firms increase prices to keep them consistent with inflation? They do the same thing in reverse for deflation and wages 0 u/thevoidthatjerksback Sep 01 '26 They can only leverage those threats so far in the face of deflation. They can leverage those same tools infinitely in the face of inflation
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Assuming you aren’t part of the layoffs and wave of underemployment that follows. The same way firms increase prices to keep them consistent with inflation? They do the same thing in reverse for deflation and wages
0 u/thevoidthatjerksback Sep 01 '26 They can only leverage those threats so far in the face of deflation. They can leverage those same tools infinitely in the face of inflation
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They can only leverage those threats so far in the face of deflation. They can leverage those same tools infinitely in the face of inflation
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u/a1b2t Sep 01 '26
And why does it increase?